The heart behind
oku therapy
OKU (奥) is a Japanese word that means “the innermost,” “the depths,” or “the place within.” It speaks to the quiet spaces we all carry — layered, tender, and often unseen.
At Oku Therapy, we offer a place for those parts.
We don’t believe healing is about becoming someone new. We believe it’s about returning — gently, slowly — to what has always lived inside you.
Whether you come carrying grief, trauma, identity questions, or a quiet ache you can’t quite name, this is a space to pause, reflect, and begin again — from the inside out.
The Oku
philosophy
At Oku, therapy isn’t about managing symptoms. It’s about listening to what those symptoms are trying to say.
We believe the patterns you repeat, the fears you carry, the ways you shut down — they’re not faults.
They’re maps. Maps of what hasn’t yet been heard.
That’s why we don’t rush toward change. We begin with curiosity. With what it feels like to be you — in your body, in your relationships, in your history.
Rooted in depth-oriented psychotherapy, we hold space for what doesn’t yet have words, for the layers beneath survival.
Because healing doesn’t happen in performance.
It happens in presence.
“Where your story gets listened to— not just your symptoms.”
A little about us
as people first
We are a collective of clinical psychologists, psycho-dynamic psychotherapists, trauma-informed, queer affirmative practitioners, narrative practitioners, and more. But more than that, we are people who have known ache—who bring our humanity into the room with you.
Your therapist will not disappear behind jargon or expertise.
They will sit with you. They will care.
We are a collective because we believe in collaboration. We meet as a team, we offer case discussions, we stay supervised. We are learning all the time. And we choose this field not because it is easy, but because it is deeply meaningful.
A letter from
Our Founder
“I built Oku Therapy because I was once deeply unheld. Because I lived for years with an undiagnosed autoimmune illness. Because I survived trauma. And carried grief in my cells. I was once a dancer — and then I wasn’t.
I’ve known silence. I’ve known slowness that wasn’t chosen. I’ve known pain that didn’t ask for permission. And I’ve known the deep hunger for care that doesn’t rush, demand, or perform.
Psychology didn’t save me. But it helped me name what I couldn’t name alone. It gave language to the unspeakable. And therapy — real, relational, depth-based therapy — taught me how to sit with myself. Softly. Honestly.
Today, I don’t chase extraordinary. I live for the small things: laughter with friends, the joy of movement, and showing up for people in the way I once longed for.
Oku exists because I want that for you, too. Because we all deserve a space where our pain isn’t pathologized — but understood. Where community exists. And where the lonely parts of us are met, not managed.
Tanisha Singh,
RCI-Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Founder, Oku Therapy
The ones who stay
when it hurts
At OKU, we don’t assume who you are before you arrive. We wait with you — curiously, respectfully — until your story is ready to unfold.
Each therapist here brings deep clinical training: RCI licensure, years of experience in trauma, anxiety, grief, identity, and relational work.
But also something harder to name: the ability to sit with what aches, without rushing to erase it.
Some of us are queer. Some have lived through illness. Some through rupture, silence, or years of carrying what felt unspeakable. We carry not just knowledge, but resonance.
Because the therapeutic relationship isn’t a prescription. It’s a partnership. One where we listen the quiet parts of you back into existence.
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